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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a group of three women and seven children sitting on the porch of a log cabin. The caption at top right corner reads: "On The Plantation." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A young man is shown riding a mule. He is transporting harvested sugar cane. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Humorous posed photograph of a woman in a wagon being attacked by an alligator. The alligator is stuffed and propped against the side of the wagon. The wom... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | African American vegetable vendor with a large basket of vegetables balanced on her head and another in the crook of her arm. Text on photograph reads "Veg... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is using two horses to pull a McCormick mower through a field, probably in or around Boston. Piles of what appear to be hay are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Side view of a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick twine grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American boy dressed in the costume of a stereotypical newsboy. The child holds up a newspaper in one hand and holding a stac... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men transporting large bales of cotton in a warehouse or loading dock. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men with a horse-drawn mower in a field. One man is working with a hand implement in a pile of hay, and another is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Composite view of a man sitting in front of a cabin, a boy riding a donkey, and a man driving an ox-drawn sledge. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A boy and a girl are sitting on a bench in front of a house near Cypress trees. A woman wearing a white dress is standing behind them. The girl is holding ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a family posed with slices of watermelon sitting in the yard near a log cabin. There is a large mortar and pestle in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two male factory workers look on as sisal fiber extends out of a finisher and piles in metal containers at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A copy print of a studio portrait of a seated African American man with a full beard. He wears a tattered hat and soiled overalls and jacket. |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | View over fence and garden towards an African American home and farm. The small home is standing along a tree line with the fenced-in garden stretching alo... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Holsey sitting on a tree stump in a fenced-in pasture. |
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